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Elive is a live CD Linux distribution based on Debian that uses the Enlightenment window manager. Elive aims to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment with a full suite of desktop applications that runs efficiently on older systems. Its developers have added a wonderful feature, ecomorph. Ecomorph is a graphics moduile that makes your computer have wonderful fast special effects.
The special effects include eyepopping 3D like desktop switching, firery menus, and an awesome window switcher by holding win+tab. You can also boot elive off a usb drive or cd/dvd by going to www.elivecd.org
At boot time, Elive offers a selection of keymaps, but this selection did not include the Dvorak map,but most people use QWERTY. I chose to start with the default Elive theme over the Night theme that is also offered, and I logged in to a beautiful, calming light blue desktop that changes to different beautiful pictures over time.
I began to look through the applications menu and was amazed at the number of programs I found. There were movie/sound players (MPlayer and XMMS by default), video editors (Kino and Cinelerra), sound editors (ReZound, ZynAddSubFx, and Hydrogen), office programs (Abiword, Xpdf, and Gnumeric), 2-D/3-D graphics editors (the GIMP and Blender), and more. When I first tried to play some movie trailers I found that the quality of the applications were threw the roof.
Please try elive at www.elivecd.org. It is a wonderful Operating system and is packed with special features and is fast as lightning.
